Test 11 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

«why's it wàigōng, 'outside' grandad, that's mean» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, that · What happens: be · To what, where: wàigōng · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 wàigōng	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wàigōng	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wàigōng	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wàigōng	nsubj
5	wàigōng	wàigōng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 outside	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 outside	punct
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 wàigōng	advmod
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 outside	punct
10	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wàigōng	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 mean	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	cop
14	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wàigōng	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mean	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wàigōng	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	wàigōng and grandad	outside property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		mean property	tree rules
3	is	present			true property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It comes from an old custom; nobody means it unkindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 custom	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 custom	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 custom	amod
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 means	obj
11	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	_	9 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			a old custom			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from custom=Initial_Location
2	mean	present	nobody	custom				unkindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

It is meant as an insult to mum's side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	aux:pass
3	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 insult	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 insult	det
6	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meant	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	10 side	mark
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mum	case
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meant	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		It				as a insult	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as insult=Attribute

Option 3

He lives outside the house, in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 garden	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	He			the house			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location

Option 4

He is not real family, only a good friend of mum's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 family	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 family	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 family	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 family	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 friend	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 family	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mum	case
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mum	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	He	real family and a good friend of mum					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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